make a girl smile today.

give her a sword.

BUTCH BALLET is a movement-based theater piece created for REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival. A love letter to female masculinity, the piece is a series of private moments and pedestrian dances created for and with a cast of butch women, trans men and genderfluid queer folks. (x)

how cool is this? i’m tearing up. 

“Don’t let your disorder define you”

Okay but do you support the people whose disorders do define them?

Do you support people with the chronic illnesses who have had to develop whole lives around their conditions? Do you support the intellectually disabled people whose whole way of thinking is defined by their disorder? Do you support the people with personality disorders who literally have a disorder as a personality? Do you support the autism/ADHD people whose disorder you can’t separate from who they are? Do you support the DIDOSDD people who have multiple definitions of themselves because of their disorder?

Or are you just saying that because a disorder defining someone means you can’t ignore it.

When I’m scrolling through a blog and see they reblogged one of my posts

Here I lay my only contribution to this fandom

badweird feelings

Early 60s drag party

AJ and friends dressed in drag at their West Village apartment in New York City, c. 1963

be gay do crime i guess 🤷🏼‍♀️

you know what’s wild is that all these crazy standards we hold ourselves to are things that we don’t even value in another person? like i’ve never been like “wow I love that this friend of mine is too proud to ask for help and never complains about their feelings” or “my favorite quality about this friend is that they get straight A’s and never get overwhelmed and has never told me about a problem” or “i love that this friend has never been wrong about anything or slipped up and said something embarrassing once in their life” and yet here we are, pushing ourselves past our limits for and beating ourselves up over slipups of things that our friends probably wouldn’t even rank in the top 50 reasons they like us

what kipperlily didn’t see, in her haste to leave the crime scene, was further proof that she’s always been wrong about kristen. because kristen cares. she was willing to possibly incriminate herself by searching buddy’s body for some way to bring him back. she was willing to reach out to her already struggling god to try to bring him back. and the bad kids, too. they were disappointed they couldn’t help him right away. they set up a way to watch his body and have evidence if it was disturbed.

they care.

even when it’s about a person they never for a second liked.

My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

happy lesbian week!!

of all Riccardo Estli's compositions, I think his "Katya's Waltz" from the Goncharov score is one of his most beautiful

Whenever I see a post talking about how it's okay to steal from huge corporations, when they have shit like self checkout, I always want to jump up and say they have cameras and are collecting your information and you need to be so careful because yeah like they're inflating the prices and running monopolies and price fixing with competitors but everybody is caring about shoplifters more and that's really fucked up, but you also need to consider that Target might be keeping track of every time you don't scan something or intentionally scan it wrong, and just waiting for it to add up to a felony.

Which feels entirely beside the point and almost inappropriate to bring up when the point is that the customer is already a victim of theft, but I feel like there are people encouraging others to do stuff that can absolutely end up with them in jail without mentioning at all that it's a risk.